The Story of Old Nantucket - A Brief History of the Island and Its People From Its Discovery Down to the Present Day #225386

With this preliminary introduction to our ancestors — the only excuse for which is a theory of the writer, who claims descent from nearly if not quite all of them, that this point of View, though hinted at by oth er writers, has hardly been sufficiently emphasized even yet — and with the announcement of an honest and sin cere purpose to deal with our forbears with all the fore bearance to which they are entitled — and no more — the story begins.